Sunday, March 29, 2015

Orylgg kicked off a painting "Challenge" a week or so ago...The 1-Hour Painting Challenge. The rules are pretty straight forward. Take a figure from primed to finished in only one hour. Some pretty impressive results have been posted up and I thought it sounded like fun so I took the opportunity tonight to give it a try.

In planning for this I knew it was going to be a significant challenge for me...I'm a notoriously slow painter and the idea of finishing a figure in an hour seemed ludicrous to me...but I was game to give it a try. So...in order to increase my odds of success I wanted every advantage I could find. This started with figure selection. I wanted something without a lot of ornamentation and that required the fewest number of colors possible. To this end I picked a classic old Rogue Trader Astropath...he is mostly, flesh, robe, and staff. Here is what he looks like ...Naked. Later, I primed with my normal Dark Gray Primer.